Dramatis PersonæChapman and Hall, 1864 - 250 pages |
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... to a fault - there ! there ! That I do love , watch too long , And wait too well , and weary and wear ; And ' tis all an old story , and my despair Fit subject for some new song : 8 . How the light , light love , he 10 JAMES LEE .
... to a fault - there ! there ! That I do love , watch too long , And wait too well , and weary and wear ; And ' tis all an old story , and my despair Fit subject for some new song : 8 . How the light , light love , he 10 JAMES LEE .
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Robert Browning. 8 . How the light , light love , he has wings to fly At suspicion of a bond : How my wisdom has bidden your pleasure good - bye , Which will turn up next in a laughing eye , And why should you look beyond ? V. ON THE ...
Robert Browning. 8 . How the light , light love , he has wings to fly At suspicion of a bond : How my wisdom has bidden your pleasure good - bye , Which will turn up next in a laughing eye , And why should you look beyond ? V. ON THE ...
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... rejoinder " — ( then It was , no doubt , you ceased that least Light pressure of my arm in yours ) " I can conceive of cheaper cures For a yawning - fit o'er books and men . 19 . " What ? All I am , was LE BYRON DE NOS JOURS . 51.
... rejoinder " — ( then It was , no doubt , you ceased that least Light pressure of my arm in yours ) " I can conceive of cheaper cures For a yawning - fit o'er books and men . 19 . " What ? All I am , was LE BYRON DE NOS JOURS . 51.
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... sky in a line of light , And earth breathe hard , and landmarks fall , And my waves no longer champ nor chafe , [ be ! " Since a stone will have rolled from its place : let 4 . But , dead ! All ' s done 58 TOO LATE .
... sky in a line of light , And earth breathe hard , and landmarks fall , And my waves no longer champ nor chafe , [ be ! " Since a stone will have rolled from its place : let 4 . But , dead ! All ' s done 58 TOO LATE .
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... light Reached there a little , and we would not lose The last of what might happen on his face . I at the head , and Xanthus at the feet , With Valens and the Boy , had lifted him , And brought him from the chamber in the depths , And ...
... light Reached there a little , and we would not lose The last of what might happen on his face . I at the head , and Xanthus at the feet , With Valens and the Boy , had lifted him , And brought him from the chamber in the depths , And ...
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ABT VOGLER Antichrist awhile Bactrian beast believe brain breath brow CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS Cerinthus cheat Christ clay dead death Don't fear doubt earth Ephesus eyes face fact fancy fear feel fingers fire flesh fool gain ghost give gold grow hair hand hate hath head hear heard heart Heaven Judge kiss laugh life's lips little voice live look Louis-d'or man's mind mouth NATURAL THEOLOGY never nought o'er once pain Patmos play Pornic praise prove RABBI BEN EZRA raps round Saint Paul sainted Setebos sigh Sludge smile soul speak spirit STAMFORD STREET stars stop suppose sure tell thee There's things thou thought to-day touch tricks truth turn twas twixt Valens watch What's whole wonder word worth Xanthus youth
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Page 150 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 71 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws: that made them, and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 78 - Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast: Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men; Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the mawcrammed beast?
Page 79 - For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Page 73 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Page 85 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 101 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, "And hope and fear, — believe the aged friend, — "Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, " How love might be, hath been indeed, and is...
Page 79 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 73 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 86 - Fool ! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall ; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure : What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops : Potter and clay endure.